It’s not that she didn’t feel safe--it’s that she didn’t feel anything at all. I’m asking now why she dreamed herself back to me from that very time and then made the dream so vivid that I remembered all the details

3.
Thomas Edison electrocutes the elephant
and the rest becomes history. Someone
somewhere gets contracted to direct a
Red Lobster commercial. Tens of thousands
of airplanes filled right now with compliant
mortgage borrowers.

The town is one of those forgotten places that everyone has left, a single diner sitting in an empty parking lot with a flickering light the only sign of life in a part of the country that goes dark as soon as the sun sets.

It’s not that she didn’t feel safe--it’s that she didn’t feel anything at all. I’m asking now why she dreamed herself back to me from that very time and then made the dream so vivid that I remembered all the details

3.
Thomas Edison electrocutes the elephant
and the rest becomes history. Someone
somewhere gets contracted to direct a
Red Lobster commercial. Tens of thousands
of airplanes filled right now with compliant
mortgage borrowers.

The town is one of those forgotten places that everyone has left, a single diner sitting in an empty parking lot with a flickering light the only sign of life in a part of the country that goes dark as soon as the sun sets.